Miresua is an imaginary, artificial, constructed language; a conlang. These words are not randomly generated. Miresua is an eclectic alphabetic mix of Basque and Finnish, two unrelated European languages.

26 September 2009

holtö = owl (bird) (noun) (Some things Google found for "holto": an uncommon term; Holto is a last name which can be Norwegian; user names; means "wood" in Old Dutch; means "where" in Pulaar which is a language of Mauritania in Northwest Africa; Holto (also known as Holt) is the name of a city in northeast China)

I noticed that the Basque word for owl (hontza) is very similar to my Miresua word for falcon (hatza). I may have to revisit my word for falcon. Also the Finnish word for owl (pöllö) is nearly the same as the Spanish word for chicken (pollo).

No word graphic, at least for now. The graphics package I use had a problem with the ö (o umlaut) in my Miresua word.

18 September 2009

aukora = hawk (bird) (noun) (Some things Google found for "aukora": an uncommon to rare term; a misspelling of Aurora which is the name of large cities in Mexico, California, Colorado, and Illinois; a rare first name; a rare last name as in Yoko Aukora; user names; may mean something in a Polynesian language)

I didn't want Miresua to use the same word for pigeon and dove, even though they are closely related birds. I like mourning doves, but I'm not that fond of rock pigeons. You wouldn't see this odd word (gauhky) in either Basque or Finnish, yet it's a reasonable mix of the Basque and Finnish words. Note that the y is pronounced as in Finnish, which is as the French u or German ü.

This Miresua word has been changed. I changed the Basque source word from paguso to uso, which means dove and pigeon. The word for pigeon is now usky.

10 September 2009

zostar = blackbird (bird) (noun) (some things Google found for "zostar": an uncommon term; user names; name of several gaming characters; a misspelling of zoster, as in varicella zoster virus (VZV), which is the cause of chicken pox in children and shingles in adults)

Like the English word blackbird, the Finnish word is also a compound word containing the word for black. The Basque word is short, and isn't close to the word Basque word for black, but it interestingly can also translate as stupid or foolish.

06 September 2009

koika = seagull (bird) (noun) (some things Google found for "koika": an uncommon term; a feminine first name, notably showbiz name of a Russian X-rated model / actress; a unusual last name that can be Finnish; koika means "love song, love poem" in Japanese)

02 September 2009

kyshu = dove (bird) (noun) (some things Google found for "kyshu": an uncommon to rare term; a misspelling of Kyushu which is the third largest of Japan's islands; user names; a character name in The Oasis...Starr's Tale; name of a World of Warcraft night elf druid game character)

Here's another bird word. The Finnish word for dove is one of the most intimidating looking words I've seen. But, given what bits I've learned about Finnish pronunciation, it sounds much nicer than it looks.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for "dove" is now "kyso".

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Young enough to daydream, old enough to be somewhat realistic. I'm creating words in a made-up language. I'm not a linguist. Mariska is an old-fashioned Hungarian form of the name Mary. It's pronounced Marishka.

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About Miresua

Miresua is a scramble of Basque and Finnish, two languages that I don't actually speak but I find interesting. Words are intended to look foreign to English speakers.

There is nobody in this world that speaks Miresua as their native language. Miresua is a made-up, constructed language used in my fantasy writing.

The Basque and Finnish words shown are correct to the best of my knowledge.

When I say that a word equals something in English that is my definition only; it's not true in the real world. The miscellaneous information I list about the words is what Google search found on the Internet for that word.

The grammar of Miresua will take rules from Basque and Finnish. Miresua will be agglutinative language (as are Basque and Finnish), a regular language with a high rate of affixes per word. Miresua will be a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) language, which is like Basque, but unlike Finnish (and English). Although unlike Basque, but like Finnish, adjectives occur before the noun which they modify. Miresua, unlike Finnish, doesn't feature vowel harmony. (For my experiment with vowel harmony, see my Samgur artlang).

Finnish language

Finnish (native name: Suomi) is spoken in Finland. It is a minority language in the Northern European countries of Sweden, Norway, Russia, and Estonia. Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family (which also includes Hungarian). There are about 6 million total speakers of Finnish.

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Basque language

Basque (native name: Euskara) is spoken by in Basque Country, a region in the western Pyrenees mountains of Spain and France. Basque is a language with no demonstrable relationship with any other living language. There are about 1 million total speakers of Basque.